To be continued, saga of the e-book
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, in a particularly arid season, I was fearful that our continuing optimism about the future of the electronic book was flagging.
The Rocket eBook reader, on which we'd invested $500 three years ago - let's see now, that would have bought perhaps eight computer books, or 15 to 20 paperbacks - had unaccountably defied the workings of Moore's Law. It had been "upgraded" to a device that offered less memory, a lower-contrast LCD screen and a higher price tag, and was no longer capable of accepting downloads of the ever-growing library of free out-of-copyright classics from gutenberg.org, or for that matter web pages or text files. The idea was to suck subscriptions for content out of users, who weren't supposed to be bright enough to realise when they were being exploited. Really?
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